It could be safely argued that Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," "Me and Bobby McGee," and "Summertime" are her best known works, and each of those was written by another. I forget at hand who sang Piece of My Heart, Roger Miller first recorded the Kris Kristofferson Me and Bobby McGee, and Summertime is a Gershwin number from Porgy and Bess.

And to be fair, Janis only sang, Big Brother and the Holding Company gave the backup.

Fail tag? Really? When did we decide that you can't be a good musician unless you only play material you've written yourself? I guess the last performance of Beethovan's 6th I heard wasn't the beautifully sublime experience I thought it was because it was just a bunch of posers performing.

I was expecting Orgy - Blue Monday, but left satisfied after seeing The Ataris on there. I saw them play at a tiny little venue last year and the new drummer they had didn't know any of their good stuff. The only song I recognized was In This Diary. Good show nonetheless.

Persnickety:Fail tag? Really? When did we decide that you can't be a good musician unless you only play material you've written yourself? I guess the last performance of Beethovan's 6th I heard wasn't the beautifully sublime experience I thought it was because it was just a bunch of posers performing.

Fail because list has 26 acts and most of them have more than 1 musician, which means that headline should be "At least 50 musicians...

Persnickety:Fail tag? Really? When did we decide that you can't be a good musician unless you only play material you've written yourself? I guess the last performance of Beethovan's 6th I heard wasn't the beautifully sublime experience I thought it was because it was just a bunch of posers performing.

"You keep using that word..." Over 1200 songs and they're just some of your "favorites"? And that's just the covers? Really? Does the concept "less is more" ring any bells, hoss? Next time link to a PDF of an old PhonoLog.

DrBenway:"You keep using that word..." Over 1200 songs and they're just some of your "favorites"? And that's just the covers? Really? Does the concept "less is more" ring any bells, hoss? Next time link to a PDF of an old PhonoLog.

If God himself posted a list of his 1200 favorite anything I wouldn't read it. Why would anyone read yours? Doesn't quite apply, but brevity is the sould of wit. It is not possible to have 1200 favorite anything. At some number the word favorite no longer applies.

Persnickety:Fail tag? Really? When did we decide that you can't be a good musician unless you only play material you've written yourself? I guess the last performance of Beethovan's 6th I heard wasn't the beautifully sublime experience I thought it was because it was just a bunch of posers performing.

This. And "penned by someone else" is not the same as a cover. And this is yet another case of Millennials "discovering" something that was already largely well-known by everyone else who was around at the time, made clear by their definition of "best known". Simply looking up 20-30 year-old chart positions tells you little about long-term staying power.

David Lee Roth - No shiat it's a cover of the Beach Boys, he and VH did a lot of 60s covers. And "best known" is a pretty big stretch with DLR.Run DMC - No shiat it's a cover of Aerosmith, THEY PERFORMED THE FARKING VIDEO WITH THEM.Whitney Houston - You mean the Whitney Houston who was already a multi-platinum seller? That one? And 20+ years later when I hear her on the piped-in soft rock stations, it's more likely to be "The Greatest Love of All".Ataris - Who?Alien Ant Farm - Who?Frente - Who?

mjbok:DrBenway: "You keep using that word..." Over 1200 songs and they're just some of your "favorites"? And that's just the covers? Really? Does the concept "less is more" ring any bells, hoss? Next time link to a PDF of an old PhonoLog.

If God himself posted a list of his 1200 favorite anything I wouldn't read it. Why would anyone read yours? Doesn't quite apply, but brevity is the sould of wit. It is not possible to have 1200 favorite anything. At some number the word favorite no longer applies.

You have a very short attention span; you are a very slow reader; and you should be ashamed of yourself./sinbox's list of The Boss Hoss covers is suspiciously missing.

Sinbox:debug: Wow, over 1200 covers listed and you missed Stone Cold Crazy, a Queen cover by Metallica. It always amazes me how many people don't know that's a Queen song.

I know it...I just don't care for it (or any of Metallica's covers that I've heard.)

Or, for that matter, any covers of Metallica I've heard (with the lone exception of the aforelisted Orion by Rodrigo y Gabriela. (sfw)

Whisky in a Jar is a decent cover by them. I don't really care for their cover of Stone Cold Crazy either. speaking of bad covers of Queen songs, I think the NIN cover of Get Down Make Love is crap too.